Unwitting Family Renting Foreclosed House Finds Themselves Locked Out After Returning Home From Dinner

In Stockton, California, ABC's Good Morning America reports:

• The housing crisis gripping the nation now has hit the renter's market. Some residents, like Beth Stoneback, are finding that their homes are being foreclosed. But Stoneback didn't own her Stockton, Calif., home. She rented the house and was shocked to find a foreclosure notice tagged to her door one day late last year. "We went out to dinner and we came home. And we couldn't get in the house. They changed the locks," said Stoneback. "We don't own a house. We don't have to worry about anything. You know, we don't own the house. I'd heard it was happening out there, but I never expected it to affect us." "Because we hadn't gotten any other notices, I assumed it was a mistake," said Stoneback's daughter Kathryn Bueche.

For more, see Housing Crisis Hits Renters Hard.

In a related story from ABC News, see Renters can't escape housing foreclosure crisis (stress of having to move on short notice may have caused tenant's miscarriage).

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